With the federal college safety tool, you can find statistics for individual schools in these five areas:

Criminal offenses

Hate crimes

Arrests

Disciplinary actions

Fire statistics

I used the college safety tool to see what kind of crime is happening at Juniata College, which is my daughter’s school. This school is out in the middle of nowhere — actually beautiful central Pennsylvania — and when my daughter lived in a dorm, she never, ever locked her door. And that’s normal for kids at this school.

When I typed in Juniata College, I discovered that in 2009 the school had zero criminal offenses in the nine categories, including arson, car theft, sexual offenses and burglary. There were also no hate crimes or fires at this college. There were two arrests for drug abuse and five for liquor law violations.

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A professor of Northeastern University, so I heard from his associate in a hallway of a local Holiday Inn, will be releasing a book soon that claims a college campus is the safest place to live in America.